Hurricane Dorian thread

#158
#158
evillawyer said:
Hurricane currently moving at a listless 1 mph. Dorian should try out for a spot on our OL.
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That's downright evil, but good job. Two thumbs up. Dorian could maybe put some real spark at QB though. I miss Dobbs.
 
#159
#159
0nelilreb said:
Lol she’s being WAY to kind . You know what she does for a living , She lets me hang around her hoping some of it will rub off on me . Maybe smooth some of these rough edges out . Lol
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Never the twain shall meet. I'm and engineer; my wife is a nurse. I can't find the empathy thing, and she doesn't get that you can't hang anything anywhere on a sheet rock wall.
 
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Orangeburst65 said:
You a ME, EE or CE?
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Nuclear, bur generally concentrated on diagnosing flow induced vibration problems and building monitoring systems to detect flow induced failures in nuclear plants ... so kinda a mix of nuclear, mechanical, and electrical. Been retired several years now.
 
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#166
AM64 said:
Nuclear, bur generally concentrated on diagnosing flow induced vibration problems and building monitoring systems to detect flow induced failures in nuclear plants ... so kinda a mix of nuclear, mechanical, and electrical. Been retired several years now.
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What are your thoughts on Fukushima ?
 
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AM64 said:
Nuclear, bur generally concentrated on diagnosing flow induced vibration problems and building monitoring systems to detect flow induced failures in nuclear plants ... so kinda a mix of nuclear, mechanical, and electrical. Been retired several years now.
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I had a young plant engineer at a client facility years ago redesign their plant air piping. It was several big old recips and he was not aware of harmonic (iirc) vibrations. You basically have to use certain lengths of pipe to eliminate these harmonics along with pulsation bottles, etc..

I am talking like 4" and 6" piping that they spent probably $100,000 redesigning. He called me up one day to come and take a look and honestly I did not feel safe in the room. It was a maze of piping that looked to move several cm's. What a mess.
 
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#169
FLVOL69 said:
What are your thoughts on Fukushima ?
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I did quite a bit of work in Japan with another nuclear utility and found them diligent and hardworking and generally pretty much on top of things ... but not always the innovators we are because of cultural differences. Fukushima was a GE design, and I'm not fond of that technology; GE consistently fought against implementing industry changes like lessons learned from places like Three Miles Island. Some things could have been mitigated ... like hydrogen igniters in the spent fuel buildings could have protected against explosion and radiation spread from spent fuel. The big problem was loss of offsite power from the earthquake and then the onsite generators being swamped by the resulting tsunami. I'm very torn on which way to go there as far as blame ... sometimes you do your absolute best to anticipate the worst, and you just can't fathom the all the permutations and combinations ... I don't think there was willful negligence.

One thing I hope our preparedness people have learned is that of keeping the infrastructure up and running, and I'm really concerned about "smart" grids that are susceptible to hackers. One "Die Hard" movie is a little sampling of what might happen if we don't get our security act together with respect to infrastructure and internet connected control systems; and that includes financial systems as well as hardware.
 
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AM64 said:
I did quite a bit of work in Japan with another nuclear utility and found them diligent and hardworking and generally pretty much on top of things ... but not always the innovators we are because of cultural differences. Fukushima was a GE design, and I'm not fond of that technology; GE consistently fought against implementing industry changes like lessons learned from places like Three Miles Island. Some things could have been mitigated ... like hydrogen igniters in the spent fuel buildings could have protected against explosion and radiation spread from spent fuel. The big problem was loss of offsite power from the earthquake and then the onsite generators being swamped by the resulting tsunami. I'm very torn on which way to go there as far as blame ... sometimes you do your absolute best to anticipate the worst, and you just can't fathom the all the permutations and combinations ... I don't think there was willful negligence.

One thing I hope our preparedness people have learned is that of keeping the infrastructure up and running, and I'm really concerned about "smart" grids that are susceptible to hackers. One "Die Hard" movie is a little sampling of what might happen if we don't get our security act together with respect to infrastructure and internet connected control systems; and that includes financial systems as well as hardware.
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I was curious as to the reports of radioactive water still flowing into the Pacific Ocean
 
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#171
I gotta say that the local and regional power companies in this nation are fantastic. They nationally respond their resources in a rapid manner and are such an asset. God Bless them.
 
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Orangeburst65 said:
I gotta say that the local and regional power companies in this nation are fantastic. They nationally respond their resources in a rapid manner and are such an asset. God Bless them.
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I can't imagine doing what they do especially in the kind of conditions they are facing at the time.
 
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#174
AM64 said:
You know, I never got around to watching that movie.
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The plant almost melted down due to pump cavitation and failed instrumentation. Jack warned the world about it as plant management tried keep plant running. He was shot by the SWAT team in the end and Hanoi Jane cried.
 
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FLVOL69 said:
I was curious as to the reports of radioactive water still flowing into the Pacific Ocean
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I haven't kept up with what's happened there in some time. However, there's a lot of water and wave action to dilute runoff, and I'm sure they are working hard to contain anything possible. Contaminated material covers a wide range, and some of it is just very lightly contaminated or sometimes just suspect ... like coveralls worn into radiation areas. They used to use off the shelf Coleman lamp wicks to demonstrate correct radiation monitoring procedures in a plant; you couldn't even take one of those offsite, but you could still buy an identical one at Walmart.
 
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